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12 July 2009

Long Story Short on Warrantless Wiretapping

The Inspectors General (it's NOT Inspector Generals people!) of the Justice Department, Department of Defense, CIA, NSA, and National Intelligence have put out a report on the warrantless wiretapping program of the Bush administration. You can read it for yourself for some interesting things, but long story short:

It didn't work very well.

It was pretty much illegal, and Yoo (author of the memos certifying the legality of the program) was full of crap.